10 named in CBI charge sheet in Rs.30 lakh bribe case

New Delhi, Oct 7 (IANS) A Gurgaon firm's two partners and eight civic officials were named in a CBI charge sheet filed in connection with Rs.30 lakh bribe taken by the officials for regularisation of a banquet hall here, an official said Monday.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed the formal set of charges in a special court Friday naming 10 accused -- including seven municipal corporation employees, a Delhi Development Authority (DDA) official and Rajesh Aggarwal and Manish Tuli, partners of Gurgaon-based firm Micromax Informatics.

Rajesh Gupta, a junior engineer of the DDA, was also named in the charge sheet, he said.

The bribe was given by Aggarwal and Tuli for granting regularisation in an improper manner to a banquet hall in Wazirpur Industrial area in north Delhi.

A case was registered Aug 7 after the officials were caught accepting Rs.30 lakh as part of a Rs.50 lakh bribe demanded by them, the CBI official said.

"On Aug 8, at least 15 places were raided. During the search at the house of a junior engineer of municipal corporation, Rs.40 lakh was recovered. During the search at the residence of one of the arrested accused, Rs.30 lakh and jewellery was recovered," said a CBI official.

"During searches at various locations of the accused public servants, more than Rs.1 Crore was recovered," he said.